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DarylS
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Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????
07/04/10 01:25 AM

.45 3 1/4" Sharps and the .450 BPE are quite applicable to each other as Andreas noted. I caught his drift as I've loaded for the single barreled Sharps .45 3 1/4" and know one is not restricted to any bullet weight, as most double rifles are.
It matters not whether one is loading a 270gr. as some earlier dobules were regulated for, or 300, 360gr. or even 400gr. to 600gr. Once merely loads the ammo and tests it to see how it works.
By the same line of thinking, you load the .400gr. for the BPE and test them - no amount of speculation is going to tell you if it will work (regulate and be accurate) in your rifle - you have to pull the trigger and see what happens. Stay away from finer granulations powders as in 3F - use only 2f or 1 1/2F is plenty fine enough. Some guys get their best BP accuracy in single barrels with 1F. Most double shooters, I'm told, use Swiss 1 1/2F for 2F.
I was able to produce excessive pressures in my .50 Sharps using 3F - flowed the primer back into the pin hole - too much pressure for the design and yet I used black powder. The same gun launched 500gr. bulelts at 1,900fps using smokeless powder, without any pressure signs.
So - stay with the 2f, 1 1/2 or even 1F grades of black powders - no phoney Black Powders, either.

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Daryl

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.450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	30/03/10 08:06 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	rigbymauser	31/03/10 12:08 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	31/03/10 12:35 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	tinker	31/03/10 04:42 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	01/04/10 08:29 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	01/04/10 08:42 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	50Calshtr	01/04/10 10:06 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	calpappas	01/04/10 01:42 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	450_366	01/04/10 04:52 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	Paul	01/04/10 09:55 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	02/04/10 12:55 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	rigbymauser	02/04/10 05:08 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	Paul	03/04/10 12:36 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	450_366	03/04/10 01:24 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	50Calshtr	05/04/10 01:54 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	450_366	05/04/10 08:02 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	07/04/10 01:25 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	07/04/10 10:20 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	450_366	07/04/10 11:27 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	08/04/10 01:22 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	12/04/10 06:12 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	13/04/10 12:28 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	13/04/10 09:26 AM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	30/04/10 07:20 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	BPEBuff	04/05/10 06:34 PM
Re: .450 Express BP Loads - max bullet weight????	DarylS	13/04/10 12:23 AM

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